10 Problems With Marvel's Secret Wars Nobody Wants To Admit
7. It Undoes Some Genuinely Interesting Changes
According to the All-New, All-Different Marvel teasers the publisher have been using to slowly reveal the state of affairs post-Secret Wars, at least some of the major changes made recently are going to stick. Thor is still a woman, Sam Wilson remains in the Captain America costume, and Steve Rogers remains old as balls. Already, though, they're undoing the Death Of Wolverine they spent months building up to, several issues actually depicting, and then about a billion spin-offs and follow ups in the months after. Shaking the multiversal snow globe in Secret Wars is an opportunity to undo that without raising many questions. Worse than that, meanwhile, is the Superior Iron Man being kicked to the kerb after just six issues. Tony Stark with a flipped moral compass, which leads to him moving to San Francisco and enslaving the populace with Extremis 2.0, was a lot of fun and it never got to go anywhere, since he's back to being nice under a new creative team soon.
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